TV might as well have been broken from December 1 to January 4th, because without Regis it was just about dead to me. But after his month-long absence following hip surgery the king of mid-morning made his triumphant return to Live!, to the tune of the Rocky theme no less. They might have his replaced his hip, but let’s hope they didn’t fix his eyes or brain or make him self-aware. Because a sensible, alert, calm, inside-voice Regis is no Regis at all. Unless he’s dangerously unhinged, it’s not Reege.

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You can replace hips. You can replace hearts. But you can’t replace crazy.